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  • America’s War in Central Africa: The Pentagon’s proxy war in the Eastern Congo
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    America’s War in Central Africa: The Pentagon’s proxy war in the Eastern Congo
    by Keith Harmon Snow
    Global Research, February 1, 2009
    allthingspass.com
    The purported ’arrest’ of General Laurent Nkunda, on January 22, 2009, by the troops of the joint FARDC and Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) operation is no surprise, it is merely damage control, with Nkunda ’arrested’—most likely shuffled off to luxury in Rwanda—to recover some sense of credibility for the international police forces—the (…)

  • Neither The US Nor Israel Is A "Genuine Party To Peace." by Noam Chomsky
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Neither The US Nor Israel Is A "Genuine Party To Peace."
    by Noam Chomsky
    Global Research, February 1, 2009 Information Clearing House
    Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously - both what he says, and what he omits. Particularly significant is his first substantive statement on foreign affairs, on January 22, at the State Department, when introducing George Mitchell to serve as (…)

  • The Obama Crossroads: Neo-Liberal Coup or Responsible Government
    2 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Obama Crossroads: Neo-Liberal Coup or Responsible Government
    by Prof. John McMurtry
    Global Research, February 1, 2009
    When the U.S. Treasury gave away $700 billion to Wall Street banks with no strings attached in October of 2008, the Obama team gave a green light. A popular insurgence was soon silenced, with public wrath directed instead at the U.S. auto producers (and unions) who followed with a request for $25 billion. The auto companies ended up with a loan of about 1/50th the (…)

  • The War on Sense
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    It is a shocking statistic and one that should spur us to action in 2006, 4,800 Americans lost their lives in the search for illicit pleasure. Most were young people under the age of 35 and there were thousands of others who were injured, some permanently in pursuit of kicks and cheap thrills.
    If we follow the same model as our war on drugs our path is clear, we must outlaw the motorcycle. We must jail it purveyors and those who would facilitate their parts or repair, (…)

  • CLINTON: Israel has right to respond to Gaza rocket attacks
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    29/01/2009 HAARETZ By News Agencies Source: stevecotler.com U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that Israel had a right to defend itself and that Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish territory could not go unanswered.
    "We support Israel’s right to self-defense. The [Palestinian] rocket barrages which are getting closer and closer to populated areas [in Israel] cannot go unanswered," Clinton said in her first news conference at the State Department. (…)

  • CLOSING GUANTANAMO: A Case for the International Criminal Court
    30 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    On July 17, 1998 an assembly of diplomats in Rome created the International Criminal Court and charged it with the responsibility of prosecuting individuals accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and crimes of aggression.
    The Court opened its doors on July 1, 2002, made its first arrest in March 2006 and began its first trial on January 26, 2009. The Court’s jurisdiction is limited to crimes committed after its (…)

  • Is Gates Undermining Another Opening to Iran?
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Inter Press Service (IPS)
    by Gareth Porter
    Source: ohmygov.com
    WASHINGTON - When U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused Iran of "subversive activity" in Latin America Tuesday, it raised the question whether he is trying to discourage President Barack Obama from abandoning the hard line policy of coercive diplomacy toward Iran he has favored for nearly three decades.
    In making a new accusation against Iran, just as Obama is still (…)

  • Edgar Allan Poe: A Tragic, but Talented, American Original
    29 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    “[Poe] would dress in ‘black’...It was his color...He liked to wander through cemeteries.” - Peter Ackroyd.
    Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40, in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances. The exact truth of what really happened to him has evaded historians. I think even the experts on the popular TV program, “Forensic Files,” would be baffled by the case. Poe is a both a legendary and tragic figure. He is one of America’s greatest men of letters. Was his death related to “a (…)

  • Long Shadows
    26 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    The "American Spectator" calls it Obama’s New Deal; CNBC and its parrot networks call it Obama’s New Deal, as well. As would be expected, the right tries to frame the argument by smearing the left. So lost and out of touch are these Ba’thist dead enders that they fail to realize that a New Deal sounds like a pretty good idea to millions of struggling Americans. But Obama’s stimulus program is not another New Deal, it is merely patching the (…)

  • Uncle Tom Obama supports Afghan Genocide & Racist Zionist (RZ) Apartheid Israeli Occupation of Palestine
    26 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Obviously Obama is vastly preferable to the Bush and McCain racist religious right republicans (R4s) and, while he could have done more and better so far, he has already done some good things e.g. appointments of Professors Chu and Holdren as top scientific advisers on climate change and other matters; US presence in Occupied Iraq to start declining; aid restored to African aid programs practicing birth control; closing Guantanamo Bay within the next year; and permitting life-saving and (…)